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In this paper, the tunnelling of a particle through a potential barrier is investigated in the presence of a time-dependent perturbation. The latter is attributed to the process of the energy measurement of the scattered particle. The…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2022-03-10 Luca Nanni

The change in entropy, /DeltaS, associated with the quasi-static absorption of a particle of energy u by a Schwarzschild black hole (ScBH) is approximately (u/T)-s, where T is the Hawking temperature of the black hole and s is the entropy…

General Physics · Physics 2011-10-26 Scott Funkhouser

A gedanken-experiment is proposed for `weighing'' the total mass of a closed system from within the system. We prove that for an internal observer the time $\tau$, required to measure the total energy with accuracy $\Delta E$, is bounded…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-01-23 Yakir Aharonov , Benni Reznik

Imagine an experiment where a quantum particle inside a box is released at some time in some initial state. A detector is placed at a fixed location inside the box and its clicking signifies arrival of the particle at the detector. What is…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-03-03 Shrabanti Dhar , Subinay Dasgupta , Abhishek Dhar

Verifying entanglement with experimental measurements requires that we take the limitations of experimental techniques into account, while still proving that the data obtained could not have been generated from a classical source. In the…

We consider a run-and-tumble particle on a half-line with an absorbing target at the origin. The particle has an internal velocity state that switches between two opposite values at Poisson-distributed times. The position of the particle…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2025-06-19 Pascal Grange , Linglong Yuan

When the difference between changes in energy and entropy at a given temperature is correlated with the ratio between the same changes in energy and entropy at zero average free energy of an ensemble of similar but distinct molecule-sized…

General Physics · Physics 2009-06-17 Petr Zimak , Silvia Terenzi , Peter Strazewski

Consider a particle which is randomly accelerated by Gaussian white noise on the line segment $0<x<1$ and is absorbed as soon as it reaches $x=0$ or $x=1$. The mean absorption time $T(x,v)$, where $x$ and $v$ denote the initial position and…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2011-07-19 Stanislav N. Kotsev , Theodore W. Burkhardt

We formulate quantum tunneling as a time-of-arrival problem: we determine the detection probability for particles passing through a barrier at a detector located a distance L from the tunneling region. For this purpose, we use a…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-11-13 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

We review recent progress in understanding the arrival time problem in quantum mechanics, from the point of view of the decoherent histories approach to quantum theory. We begin by discussing the arrival time problem, focussing in…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2015-05-20 James M Yearsley

The time evolution of a closed quantum system is connected to its Hamiltonian through Schroedinger's equation. The ability to estimate the Hamiltonian is critical to our understanding of quantum systems, and allows optimization of control.…

Textbook quantum mechanics treats time as a classical parameter, and not as a quantum observable with an associated Hermitian operator. For this reason, to make sense of usual time-energy uncertainty relations such as $\Delta {t}\Delta…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2021-12-08 Matteo Fadel , Lorenzo Maccone

We study the arrival time distribution of overdamped particles driven by a constant force in a piecewise linear random potential which generates the dichotomous random force. Our approach is based on the path integral representation of the…

Statistical Mechanics · Physics 2007-09-06 S. I. Denisov , M. Kostur , E. S. Denisova , P. Hänggi

Absorption of electromagnetic energy by a dissipative material is one of the most fundamental electromagnetic processes that underlies a plethora of applied problems, including sensing and molecular detection, radar detection, wireless…

Optics · Physics 2020-03-31 Alexey Proskurin , Andrey Bogdanov , Denis G. Baranov

We investigate the process of photon absorption by atoms or molecules shortly interacting with a laser beam in the dipole approximation. Assuming that the interaction time $\tau$ is much smaller than the lifetime of the corresponding…

We propose that measurements of time-of-arrival correlations in multi-partite systems can sharply distinguish between different approaches to the time-of-arrival problem. To show this, we construct a Positive-Operator-Valued measure for two…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-03-15 Charis Anastopoulos , Ntina Savvidou

Beginners studying quantum mechanics are often baffled with electron tunneling.Hence an easy approach for comprehension of the topic is presented here on the basis of uncertainty principle.An estimate of the tunneling time is also derived…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2007-05-23 Angik Sarkar , T. K. Bhattacharyya

In quantum theory we refer to the probability of finding a particle between positions $x$ and $x+dx$ at the instant $t$, although we have no capacity of predicting exactly when the detection occurs. In this work, first we present an…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2017-04-05 Eduardo O. Dias , Fernando Parisio

We consider the definition that might be given to the time at which a particle arrives at a given place, both in standard quantum theory and also in Bohmian mechanics. We discuss an ambiguity that arises in the standard theory in three, but…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2009-10-31 J. Finkelstein

Using standard results from statistics, we show that for Gaussian quantum systems the distribution of a time measurement at a fixed position can be directly inferred from the distribution of a position measurement at a fixed time as given…

Quantum Physics · Physics 2024-01-24 Mathieu Beau , Lionel Martellini